likeliness
Americannoun
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“If only one in 100 adult orangutans is removed from a population per year, this population has a high likeliness to go extinct.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2018
Running won’t turn you into a yoga guru, but improving your balance now will lower the likeliness of falling as you age, says Fieseler, also the president of the American Medical Athletic Association.
From US News • Sep. 30, 2016
“For the first half of the 20th century, many female cartoonists wrote under ambiguous or masculine names, just to increase their likeliness for publication.”
From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2016
There are straightforward questions about likeliness to watch again or to recommend the show, and more specific queries about things like script and acting quality, concept and setting.
From Slate • Apr. 22, 2013
This that I have told you is gospel truth; and all the other things that you hear about the Emperor are foolish stories with no human likeliness.
From Folk-Tales of Napoleon The Napoleon of the People; Napoleonder by Kennan, George
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